engineer & founder / obsessed about user experience & performance
Brussels, Belgium
Joined January 2026
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yesterday i crossed 3k followers 🎉
for everyone new here, a bit about me:
i'm Matt, 30, from Belgium 🇧🇪
software engineer for 8 years, now trying to build SaaS and sharing the journey
you'll also see some gym, BJJ and random life stuff in between
thank you all, and say hi if we never talked :)
my question is: does this ever stop?
i think the brain is very adaptable and can get better at handling certain things the more you practice them
but it’s been months now since my days shifted from coding to managing agents, and i still feel tired from all the context switching
AI was supposed to make us work less
I've never been this tired in my life
most days I have up to 10 agents running at the same time. one fixing a bug, one writing pages, one refactoring something I already forgot I asked for, 3 other I have no idea what they are doing but i suppose i ask it?
and I jump from conversation to conversation all day
compared to 5 years ago, I probably context switch 100x more
by the end of the day my brain is fried. completely toasted. nothing left, not even for the people I love
I call it the fried brain effect
thought it was just me but almost every founder I talk to lately says the exact same thing
we got superpowers, and somehow the pressure only went up. if you can ship 10x more, you feel like you have to ship 10x more. every single day
I don't have a solution
honestly I have no idea where this goes from here
anyone else feeling this?
8 years ago, when i started working as a software engineer, the book on my desk was Clean Code
back then the implementation was the job. naming, small functions, clean abstractions. that's what made you good
today AI writes and reviews 90% of my code, so that part matters a lot less than it used to
AI can suggest an architecture too, but i'm the one who has to understand the tradeoffs. where the data lives, what happens when something fails, what i give up with each option
so this is the book on my table now
i think designing systems is becoming the most important skill for engineers. the job looks a lot more like software architecture than coding
i replaced doomscrolling with replying to 862 strangers on X for 7 days, here are the results:
i've always heard replying was the best way to grow on X, so i tested it.
every time i reached for my phone to doomscroll, i wrote thoughtful replies instead, checking each person's profile so the reply was actually relevant.
the numbers:
- starting point: 1,716 followers
- 862 replies (~123/day)
- ~3h per day, 21h total
- 564 new followers (+33% in a week)
was it worth it? it's the same 3 hours i was already burning on the feed, except now they compound :)
interesting and useful read by @sasha_zelts
My $200 Claude sub ran out in 2 days. The cause was one line in my CLAUDE.md.
It said to use sub-agents for parallel work. Opus 5 mostly ignored it. Opus 5.5 did what it said.
last week, the X algorithm made one of my post blow up and reach 250k views, but how did this impact my SaaS numbers?
in 2 days, I received 1500 more unique visitors compared to baseline
7 people started a free trial (with credit card asked upfront), and 5 people booked a demo meeting with me
finally, one person tried to pentest my backend and make me waste money by calling API endpoints that use LLMs, thankfully these were already behind a rate limiter 😅
pretty happy with these numbers as the post was not promotional, this is just the result of people being curious and checking my profile
for context: i'm building leadsrover.io in public to help people find customers using Reddit. happy to share what i learn, just not my whole architecture 😂
i gave Claude access to my "following" list and asked to find the people who only post spam, obvious AI generated content, engagement farming, etc
if i unfollowed you today, don't take it personally, but i'm on this app to exchange with humans, not AIs :)
